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Ethics at the cinema / edited by Ward E. Jones and Samantha Vice.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion picture industry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 341 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- This volume of contributed, previously unpublished essays focuses on general theoretical, meta-ethical and aesthetic issues in philosophy and the ways in which they manifest themselves in film.
- Contents:
- Philosophy and the ethical significance of spectatorship : an introduction to ethics at the cinema / Ward E. Jones
- Critique, character, and the power of film. The secrets and lies of film / Andrew Gleeson
- Propaganda and artistic merit : The case of Colonel Blimp / Stephen Williams
- Just what is it that makes Tony Soprano such an appealing, attractive murderer? / Murray Smith
- Transgressive comedy and partiality : making sense of our amusement at His girl Friday / Ward E. Jones
- Philosophical readings
- Ethics and social readings. Reason, absurdity, and anti-Semitism in The believer / Tom Martin
- Melting whites and liberated Latinas : identity, fate, and character in Fools rush in / Paul C. Taylor
- Lighthouses in a foggy world : ideals in Frank Capra's Meet John Doe / Samantha Vice
- La Grande illusion as a work of art / Peter Goldie
- A crash course on personal racism / Larry Blum
- Ethics and personal relationships. Love and friendship in the balance : the case of Jules et Jim / Karen Hanson
- Sophie's choice / Torbjörn Tännsjö
- Dangerous liaisons : love, letters, and lessons in sexual ethics / Joseph Kupfer
- Justice, mercy, and friendship in The third man / Julia Driver
- The third man : ethics, aesthetics, irony / Deborah Knight
- Moral intelligence and the limits of loyalty : The third man as philosophy / Thomas Wartenburg.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed Dec. 17, 2010).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-979316-6
- 0-19-532040-9
- 1-282-94500-9
- 9786612945007
- 0-19-971769-9
- OCLC:
- 922969952
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